2023

David Hemingson

(The Holdovers)

2022

Martin McDonagh

(The Banshees of Inisherin)

2021

Sian Heder

(CODA)

2020

Charlie Kaufman

(I'm Thinking of Ending Things)

2019

Noah Baumbach

(Marriage Story)

2018

Wes Anderson

(Isle of Dogs)

2017

Aaron Sorkin

(Molly's Game)

2016

Mike Mills

(20th Century Women)

2015

Rick Famuyiwa

(Dope)

2014

Wes Anderson

(The Grand Budapest Hotel)

2013

Richard Curtis

(About Time)

2012

David Cronenberg

(Cosmopolis)

2011

Mike Mills

(Beginners)

2010

Aaron Sorkin

(The Social Network)

2009

Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber

(500 Days of Summer)

2008

Martin McDonagh

(In Bruges)

2007

Diablo Cody

(Juno)

2006

Michael Arndt

(Little Miss Sunshine)

2005

Noah Baumbach

(The Squid and the Whale)

2004

Richard Linklater

(Before Sunset)

2003

Sofia Coppola

(Lost in Translation)

2002

Burr Steers

(Igby Goes Down)

2001

Richard Kelly

(Donnie Darko)

2000

Kenneth Lonergan

(You Can Count on Me)

1999

Eric Roth, Michael Mann

(The Insider)

1998

Gary Ross

(Pleasantville)

1997

Matt Damon, Ben Affleck

(Good Will Hunting)

1996

Cameron Crowe

(Jerry Maguire)

1995

David Webb Peoples, Janet Peoples

(12 Monkeys)

1994

Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary

(Pulp Fiction)

1993

Quentin Tarantino

(True Romance)